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Displaying that beautiful iconic gold top, the 2018 Les Paul Classic produces a very robust balanced tone with extreme sustain. A responsive guitar with sensitivity, the Classic produces powerful chords with midrange but excels when playing your searing solos. This Gibson is truly a classic!

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I bought this guitar to add the P90 sound to my collection. The guitar came perfect out of the box and gave me the sounds I was looking for. Highly recommended!

Steve
Submitted: 8/9/2018

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A Home Run

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I bought this guitar intending to do some heavy mods to it, but after playing it for just a few minutes I knew I had to leave it as is. It's all there. The classic mid-'50s look, and the brash P-90 tone is very faithful to an original. The slim taper neck fits my hand very well, and this guitar plays like butter!! High quality fit and finish that one would expect from Gibson. In short, I love this guitar. In fact, I'm buying another (ebony) one to modify the way I intended to do with this one!!! No disappointments here.

James
Submitted: 6/8/2018

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Buyer beware

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If you buy this guitar and expect to run it out of a nice loud amp with some distortion. Loudest clunky pick ups ever. I love the way this guitar looks but unless you play blues jazz or country this is not the guitar for you...unfortunately. I already sold mine.

Jay Reman, jayreddog@yahoo.com
Submitted: 1/2/2018

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AWESOME

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I bought the Gold Top as I wanted a Les Paul that looked like the 1956 without the price. Fit and Finish was "perfect". The non-weight relief is a good thing... sustain like you were using a compressor...even unplugged. The advantage (other than price)..is a SLIM tapered neck, very much like my 2016 Les Paul. If you ever played an old Les Paul, they felt like a baseball bat...this is slim and a very fast neck because it has medium frets not jumbos...feels great. Grovers are the perfect tuners and this stays in tune. P-90's aren't Humbuckers so the pickups are sweet and when you use overdrive...they are nasty...awesome sound...just like the old days.
I have owned more than 15 Les Pauls. (presently have 4) This one is a great investment without a 2nd mortgage to get an original 1950's. Also...if you get the ebony version, change the pickup covers and pick guard and it'll look like a Les Paul Pro Deluxe from the 70's.
Bottom line...AWESOME!

Nate
Submitted: 10/17/2017

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‘18 will be a good year for Gibson

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Best modern Gibson I’ve played. Neck feels great, the P90s are amazing and the fit and finish is awesome! Definitely a great guitar and you don’t have fork out the cash for an R6!

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